sunetra choudhury
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Look, ma, my byline's going to be on TV! Our labour of love, our book
#blackwarrant
is soon to be a TV series. So excited and grateful that
@PiyuK
forced me to write this incredible memoir of
@thesunilgupta
Do read the original book
Some collaborations are special!
Applause Entertainment & Andolan Films are teaming up to bring you two gripping stories - 'Indi(r)a's Emergency', a 3-part docu-series, and 'Black Warrant', a drama series based on the memoirs of a Tihar Jailer. We can’t wait to get this started.
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Leaders are defined by how they handle crisis. Who in our midst has inspired confidence like this
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In my v long career, never heard of any protestor walk through the night so as not to disturb others!
#FarmersMarch
#respect
✊🏽
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I dont know about you but despite the 20 odd years of contacts, I cdnt help one family get oxygen forget a bed in Delhi. None of my calls scored a cylinder. They've had to run around and manage somehow for last 3 days. All i can do is pray
#CovidIndia
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Raghuram Rajan says approx 65k crores needed to help poor which ‘isnt much in our 200lakh crore economy’. True. If you think about it, just 3 times more than central vista cost?
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My first byline for
@htTweets
- Former PM Manmohan Singh responds to BJP charge of being a weak PM- says we did mtiple surgical strikes. Do read and share
#HTExclusive
| ‘Many surgical strikes during UPA’s tenure’, says former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tells Hindustan Times'
@sunetrac
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Among the 19 lakh left out of
#NRCFinalList
is my 75 year old aunt. She was in the draft and she travelled from Guwahti to Tezpur to show her papers and yet left out. Going by the panic levels in the family, cant imagine what it must be like for those who are poor and uneducated
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Okay, am confused. The honourable top court has time to hear this during the lockdown but not about hospitals and covid patients?
Arnab Goswami moves Supreme Court for quashing FIRs against him.
Bench of justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah to hear the case tomorrow.
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When asked about what Centre is doing for those hit economically by
#COVID2019
,
@PrakashJavdekar
says 1) states are doing 2) communities helping each other
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BJP spokesperson: I thank the media people who did prachar for us ☺️
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The most shameful piece on
#Metoo
by Tavleen Singh- exposes her total ignorance. She is just so irrelevant and
@IndianExpress
should just stop her column because it peddles nonsense.
#TimesUp
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ICYMI brij bhushan singh, honourable mp- i have killed only one man
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Men in parliament and assemblies have used pepper sprays, watched porn, taken videos- all unparliamentary and you are trying to tell me a cackle is inappropriate. I cackle at your logic!
#RenukaChoudhary
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Just realized I am the recipient of the Mary Morgan Hewett Award for women in journalism! I cannot believe it! I may delete this if it turns out to be a dream
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Who are they referring to here? People like
@Sudhabharadwaj
gave up their american citizenship to come and work for tribal rights.
“Urban Maoists live in air conditioned houses, roam around in fancy cars, their children study abroad, but they ruin future of our tribal youth here and disrupt peace,” says Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Chhattisgarh
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Some people dont get sippers, reading glasses, essential meds in jails, others accused of rape and murders, get 1 month holidays for birthdays. Life is different for VIPs that govts like
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While top govt sources told ndtv 250 casualties but this was not on record. FS also didnt mention any figure. As an old govt hand said -‘How on earth do they know they've murdered A, B, C... when they dropped bombs under cover of darkness?’hmm
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great news- from monday, if you are above 60 or if you have comorbidities and are 45+. you can also buy vaccines at a private hospital. Which means the parents can be protected, y'all! 👏👏
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Bit curious.
@ndtv
legal reporters say no hearing in sarada case for 2 years now. So which SC direction is CBI following
Interim CBI chief M Nageshwar Rao to ANI: We are investigating these chit fund cases as per the directions of the SC. An SIT has been constituted by the WB govt prior to SC's direction under the chairmanship of Rajeev Kumar, who is currently the Kolkata police commissioner.
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Dear Lord. While I was quickly typing I sent wrong emoji to a political contact. Meant to send 👍🏾 and sent 😘 instead! Silence. Quickly deleted. Awkward!
#lifeofareporter
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What an extraordinary figure this is. Remember that unlike cbi which is autonomous ( at least on paper), ED comes directly under ministry of finance
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I think all my colleagues
@ndtv
will share my excitement at
@imtiaz_jaleel
our former colleague winning his aurangabad seat. See you in parliament, Imtiaz 😊
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Completely political, more like! From comparisons with ex pm’s work ethic to relations with oppn leaders and international figures. Vv choreographed messaging
While the whole country is talking elections and politics, here’s a breather. Privileged to have done this candid and COMPLETELY NON POLITICAL freewheeling conversation with our PM
@narendramodi
. Watch it at 9AM tomorrow via
@ANI
for some lesser known facts about him!
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How does
#DavinderSingh
case change the way we look at previous cases like Afzal? Lawyer ND Pancholi who fought against the death sentence explains why all of special task force’s cases should be re-opened
#OnTheRecord
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We didn't watch
@ndtv
report says every minister we ask to react, respond to this report . How long will they keep eyes wide shut?
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In lucknow, 44% were absent for
#neetJEE2020
, but overall the figure is 20% absenteeism, which is much more than previous years
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‘The way
@DelhiPolice
behaved in Jamia is reprehensible. ‘ Ex top cop
@neerajkumarexcp
breaks down what a fail his colleagues were. Going into libraries is ‘unpardonable’ - do listen to him
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so
@DelhiPolice
claims they have some video that shows
@kanhaiyakumar
raising `seditious' slogans. Since this is their main evidence `corroborated' by CFSL, shouldn't it be made public? Esp because they are 3 years late?
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I’ve never seen a state with all its trappings so afraid of students and what they stand for- education and the power to dissent
#JamiaProtest
#amu
#CitizenshipAmendmentAct
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I met a congress candidate from mp. How did it go, i asked? ‘ i would have got lakhs in victory margin but what do I say if I am fighting against Modi!’
#Election2019
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Me. According to my son. ( Definitely after I expressed my displeasure at his school work)
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Why did they need a
@DelhiPolice
motorcade to accompany the new cbi director at 1 am to CBI office. My insider friend says this last happened in stalinist russia
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Busy day for Rahul Gandhi yesterday. Another meeting with
@PrashantKishor
along with meetings with Sachin Pilot and Sharad Yadav
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Wow
@TanishqJewelry
that's all it took? What would you do if you were a woman on twitter who faced this every day? Another reason to have more women CEOs
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The mobs are now entering our homes and attacking- what has become of us? How can we not panic? This muslim woman’s scream is going to give us all nightmares because she’s not in the boondocks, she’s not too far from Delhi
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Nehru surveying the construction of NDA Khadakvasla in 1956. From Wajahat Habibullah’s excellent book
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After all those tales and adjectives of ‘desperado’ ‘dreaded’, gangster Vikas Dubey basically looks quite prosaic, really
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This is being circulated in the polarised atmosphere of primaries in Iowa. We could do with this spirit too, right?
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Dear
@ArvindKejriwal
@msisodia
-please rein in the RWAs. Their power has gone to their heads and while we are all panicking, there are those who wont let any helpers come in to colony despite this being allowed in the last set of guidelines. This is VERY traumatic for seniors
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It’s not just Davinder Singh and his shady role in Parliament attack case, even the Red Fort attack had a RAW agent link. I write about them in this story, and I also speak to the judge who hanged Afzal about whether this changes anything. Do read
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This is a picture of my son Tiny from December 2010 when A Raja and Anil Ambani were being questioned together in CBI during 2g scam. I was a new mum and I didnt know where to leave him…
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Holy cow. Rajiv Bajaj ko gussa kyun aata hai?! Industrialists traditionally speak nice of all govts in India but Bajaj is slamming the lockdown policies, lack of a proper stimulus
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When the new cbi director was being inducted into cbi in 2015- the then counter intelligence head amitabh dhillon said he wasnt fit because of corruption allegations and political affiliations- my story
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Afzal Guru's lawyer tells
@htTweets
revelations about JK cop
#DavinderSingh
prove that
#parliamentattack
details were suppressed and Guru was a scapegoat- do read
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How government's top officers, minister huddled on Tuesday to tackle all the flak about
#COVIDEmergency2021
-“perception through effectively highlighting positive stories and achievements”, and making the government “be seen to be sensitive, bold, quick, responsive, hardworking'
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So this is
@arjunrammeghwal
avoiding my question on
#AlwarLynching
. He was the one who said lynchings are because of PM's popularity
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If you have to do a hidden camera, do it for a story like this. My colleague Saurabh Shukla captures killers admitting to their blood thirsty lynchings- how they denied the dying water or beat them for an hour. Watch and cry
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Somebody pinch me-
@VikramMotwane
of
#SacredGames
and
#Udaan
fame is bringing our little book
#BlackWarrant
to the screen! Say whaaaat!!
We are delighted to announce that the series rights of our bestselling book Black Warrant by Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury have been jointly aquired by Andolan Films and Confluence Media.
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I guess it’s for everyone’s safety but it comes a week late and feels a bit medieval
#COVID2019
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Thoughts and prayers with the family of former NDTV video editor Naresh Kumar who died in LNJP this morning
#COVIDEmergency
. Naresh was a beloved colleague of so many
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The women of
@timesofindia
set an example by forcing TOI to take action by writing a letter. The women of
@IndiaToday
need to do the same. It is tough but
#MeTooIndia
is a time for solidarity. C’mon sisters
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Anyone else have parents who dont pick up their cellphones for hours, drive you mad with anxiety and then tell you they were out? ‘That’s why it’s called a mobile, mother, you are meant to keep it with you and pick it up!’ I just wasted 2 hours worrying
#sundayrant
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A person involved with evacuating foreigners asked an american why he wouldnt stay back as India was much safer. ‘He told me he wants to die amidst family, friends and not in a strange land far away.’
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If there is one group the NDA govt has consistently fought against- it is students. How tragic
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What’s unclear is the date of meeting at
#NizamuddinMarkaz
. If in second week of March, there were no restrictions then. So why this talk of FIR?
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First photos of CM for the third time Mamata Banerjee out of her wheelchair, and claiming victory
#Elections2021
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Would love to cheer an inmate being released after reform but
#manusharma
used every influence he could to be comfy in jail. Own cell, a hotel nearby to entertain jail staff, gave jobs in his brother's company to officials' kin, open jail n now gets to walk to freedom. Privileged
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When Prof Saibaba's mother died, he wasnt even given parole ( unlike convicted rapist/ murderer Ram Rahim. Will Delhi University reinstate him now and give back his dues?
@vrinda_tulsian
traces the unfair judicial process
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The man who ran away with billions is just walking around the streets of London
Exclusive: Telegraph journalists tracked down Nirav Modi, the billionaire diamond tycoon who is a suspect for the biggest banking fraud in India's history
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The questions that went unanswered due to suspensions in parliament
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As I grow older, I sometimes think it is overrated to be polite. It’s empowering to speak your mind and call people out, especially on everyday sexism. That’s my goal for the new year and I wish that for all other women too.
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We thought that banks calling for
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was an irritant but it is so much more than that- Supreme Court says it was `unconstitutional'. The number of kids who suffered, who couldn't get to school, who couldn't get ration- who will pay for that? The ones who went hungry- who?
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I love how
@kakoligdastidar
tells off
@Uppolice
. Not sure it had any impact but someone needed to shame them
#Hathras
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From fighting a civic election in kashmere gate in 2012 to a lok sabha ticket in Puri 2019- that’s the power of TV
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Pranab Mukherjee obviously wasnt impressed with MMS and wished he was chosen as PM but BO saves max amount of compliments in his entire book and of all foreign leaders for Manmohan Singh. Image from the book
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The only reason why Hollywood stars and best selling artists are tweeting is because many wants to use their following for a good cause and
#FarmersProtest
has been prominently displayed by international press for some time now.
#Rihanna
does not need to be paid for a tweet!
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The rat hole miners are still waiting for the 50k reward for their amazing rescue of 41 workers. Hope they get it soon
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Surely there is a better way to respond to
#Rihanna
and the other celebrities than calling them dumb, lacking character etc. Such counters only expose the misogyny and doesn't do any favours to India's messaging to the world
#FarmersProtest
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